"To pay off my debts, deal with the aftermath of a fire, fix up my home, and bring my son back from an orphanage."

A captured Russian soldier explains why he came to fight and kill in Ukraine. Pokrovsk direction, Donetsk region.

Russia doesn't care about its citizens. Then, when they become desperate, it recruits them to go kill Ukrainians and die.

: State Border Guard Service of Ukraine
https://x.com/Gerashchenko_en/status/1977709130782527890

https://files.catbox.moe/cl4vrr.mp4